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star schema - fact dimension - descriptive text column as fact

if your facts are descriptive comments (eg 500 characters) along with numerical values and measures associated to the comments ..do you keep them both in the same fact table?  


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Anonymous
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Hi,

I would say that this is a decision based on performance. Check this thread for more information: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Fat-fact-table-or-overly-long-fat-dimension/td-p/1264261

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